CastlePöttmes

Pöttmes Castle

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Pöttmes Castle (also: Gumppenberg Castle) is located in Pöttmes in the district of Aichach-Friedberg and is a protected monument. As a Hofmark castle, it was the manorial seat of the closed Hofmark Pöttmes, which had a blood court. From 1279 until the administrative reform in 1818, the lordship of Pöttmes was owned by the Barons of Gumppenberg. The noble family formerly had its seat in an imposing castle complex on the Gumppenberg northwest of the town, which burned down in July 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession and was never rebuilt.

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The castle complex is a two-story, elongated three-wing building, grouped around a small courtyard with an 18th-century Marian fountain (Brunnenhof), decorated with the coats of arms of the Gumppenbergs and the comi …

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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: Hubi1802

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